#leadershiptruth – Your comfort zone is a career killer.
The riskiest place to be in your career is when you’re too comfortable. Our brains will work harder to keep us away from risk than they will to pursue reward. This screws us up at work because once we...
View Article#leadershiptruth – Job Expectations are Like Quicksand
Welcome to the VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world. Gotta love that an acronym developed by the US military has now gone mainstream as a way to describe today’s workplaces. With the...
View Article#leadershiptruth – Park your preferences
We all have a preferred way of doing things. You may prefer that your colleagues proactively come to you with problems. You may prefer to think through answers rather than blurting them out on the...
View Article#leadershiptruth – You always have a choice.
When it comes to pressure, we’re all our own worst enemies and often lose sight of the fact that we have choices. Here’s an example from my life: we had just bought our first house that carried a big...
View Article#leadershiptruth – Balance is Overrated
When your lives are in complete balance, things are rather still. My talented coaching friend Kim Ades made this observation. I love this challenge to the view of balance. It got me thinking about our...
View Article#leadershiptruth – It is what it is, not what it should be.
We can waste a lot of our energy wanting things to be different. That’s especially true about people. How many times do you find yourself wishing that someone you work with would respond differently?...
View ArticleMentoring Matters – Carolina Perez
Roundtable Mentor, Carolina Perez, a Global Leadership Strategy Professional, shared her tips for creating team unity in a dynamic environment. “The leader’s mindset is key: how you see the team, as an...
View ArticleMentoring Matters – Stephanie Choquette
Roundtable Mentor, Stephanie Choquette, AVP, Innovation & Real Estate at MD Financial Management, shared her strategies for dealing with a stressful situation involving multiple levels of...
View ArticleMandela’s Way: Lessons on Life, Love and Courage
By: Richard Stengel and Preface by Nelson Mandela Reviewed by: Shelby Gobbo The Premise: Following a preface from Nelson Mandela, Richard Stengel, former editor of Time magazine has written a compact,...
View Article#leadershiptruth – Past behaviour predicts future behaviour.
As specialists in helping leaders shift their behaviours, I can tell you that there’s a reason we get people focused on working on one big behaviour at a time: it’s REALLY HARD to change a behaviour!...
View Article#leadershiptruth – Your comfort zone is a career killer.
The riskiest place to be in your career is when you’re too comfortable. Our brains will work harder to keep us away from risk than they will to pursue reward. This screws us up at work because once we...
View Article#leadershiptruth – Job Expectations are Like Quicksand
Welcome to the VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world. Gotta love that an acronym developed by the US military has now gone mainstream as a way to describe today’s workplaces. With the...
View Article#leadershiptruth – Park your preferences
We all have a preferred way of doing things. You may prefer that your colleagues proactively come to you with problems. You may prefer to think through answers rather than blurting them out on the...
View Article#leadershiptruth – You always have a choice.
When it comes to pressure, we’re all our own worst enemies and often lose sight of the fact that we have choices. Here’s an example from my life: we had just bought our first house that carried a big...
View Article#leadershiptruth – Balance is Overrated
When your lives are in complete balance, things are rather still. My talented coaching friend Kim Ades made this observation. I love this challenge to the view of balance. It got me thinking about our...
View ArticleMentoring Matters – Carolina Perez
Roundtable Mentor, Carolina Perez, a Global Leadership Strategy Professional, shared her tips for creating team unity in a dynamic environment. “The leader’s mindset is key: how you see the team, as an...
View ArticleMentoring Matters – Stephanie Choquette
Roundtable Mentor, Stephanie Choquette, AVP, Innovation & Real Estate at MD Financial Management, shared her strategies for dealing with a stressful situation involving multiple levels of...
View ArticleMandela’s Way: Lessons on Life, Love and Courage
By: Richard Stengel and Preface by Nelson Mandela Reviewed by: Shelby Gobbo The Premise: Following a preface from Nelson Mandela, Richard Stengel, former editor of Time magazine has written a compact,...
View Article#leadershiptruth – Past behaviour predicts future behaviour.
As specialists in helping leaders shift their behaviours, I can tell you that there’s a reason we get people focused on working on one big behaviour at a time: it’s REALLY HARD to change a behaviour!...
View Article#leadershiptruth – Trust your gut.
Lately, it seems that intuition is getting shortchanged in a world that values data and critical thinking. We have become so focused on trying to bulletproof our decisions by backing them up with facts...
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